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Italian Villas and Their Gardens

by Edith Wharton

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Marchionne (Carlo) 1704-1780

Marchionne was the architect of the Villa Albani near Rome, built in 1746.

Michelangelo (Simone Buonarroti) 1475-1564

The great architect, sculptor and painter, was born in Florence, where he built the Laurentian Library and the chapel of S. Lorenzo, with the cupola of the sacristy. In Rome he built the Palazzo de’ Conservatorii on the Capitoline hill, the cornice of the Palazzo Farnese, the Porta del Popolo and the Porta Pia. His model for the dome of St. Peter’s was carried out except as to the lantern. Tradition assigns to him the Villa ai Collazzi (now Bombicci) near Florence.

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